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The Girls of Slender Means1 comment

Karen wrote 2 months ago: By Muriel Spark Book Club choice for June. It tied with John Fowles’s The Magus but had more p … more →

Tags: Book Club, Book Journal--Spoilers Galore!, Book Review

Hey Moondog7 comments

dcairns wrote 3 months ago: SECRET CEREMONY is a film maudit if ever there was one. Even many hardcore Loseyites find it hard t … more →

Tags: film, Literature, William Cameron Menzies, The Knack, Anthony Mann, Joseph Losey, Hangover Square, Michel Ciment, Jean-Pierre Melville

Desperately Seeking...

thefatalist wrote 5 months ago: The blue-eyed boy who wears a Bad Religion hoodie and drinks White Russians in Nice n Sleazys. Clare … more →

Tags: Aberdeen, Zoe, dreadnaught, clare, Stephen, John

Memento Mori

Karen wrote 6 months ago: By Muriel Spark I am listening to this book on audio, in ten-minute chunks separated by large period … more →

Tags: Book Journal--Spoilers Galore!, Book Review, Memento Mori, Fire

Richard Dalby - Mystery for Christmas

demonik wrote 8 months ago: Richard Dalby (ed.) - Mystery for Christmas ed. (O’Mara, 1990) Richard Dalby - Foreword Charles D … more →

Tags: *O'Mara*, Richard Dalby, Charles Dickens, Christmas, David Rowlands, Elizabeth Fancett, John S. Glasby, John Whitbourn, Mary Williams

A couple of book recommendations

Guru wrote 9 months ago: Allen Barra at the Salon on True Grit (via Maud): The 40th anniversary reissue of Charles Portis … more →

Tags: Books, True Grit, Charles Portis, The prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark

Tribe wrote 10 months ago:  “I’m like a drowning man sometimes.” Reality and Dreams is the story of Tom Rich … more →

Tags: Scottish

A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

Tribe wrote 10 months ago: “That glint of a thin trail.” A Far Cry From Kensington is set in post-WWII England and … more →

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The Public Image by Muriel Spark

Tribe wrote 10 months ago: “It’s what they want to believe that counts .” In The Public Image by Muriel Spark … more →

Tags: Scottish

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

Tribe wrote 10 months ago: “I knew you were the one.” In Muriel Spark’s chilling novella The Driver’s S … more →

Tags: Scottish

The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark

Tribe wrote 10 months ago:  “Beware the ire of the calm.” Electronic surveillance equipment, bugging devices, rigg … more →

Tags: Scottish

Muriel Spark’s Masterpiece, ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’2 comments

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 11 months ago: Spark’s modern classic was published before the Booker Prize was established but towers over two o … more →

Tags: Novels, Classics, female authors, Books, Book Reviews, Reading, Fiction, Literature, Women

The Only Problem by Muriel Spark

Tribe wrote 11 months ago: “What am I doing with these people around me?” Millionaire Harvey Gotham, Canadian heir … more →

Tags: Scottish

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Tribe wrote 11 months ago: “I always knew your upbringing was a bit peculiar.” In the 1930s, Miss Jean Brodie is a … more →

Tags: Scottish

The Finishing School by Muriel Spark

Tribe wrote 11 months ago: “Practical jokers can easily become psychopaths.” Rowland and Nina Mahler operate the se … more →

The Hothouse by the East River by Muriel Spark

Tribe wrote 1 year ago: “Have you ever thought there was something strange about your mother?” The Hothouse by t … more →

Tags: Scottish

Symposium by Muriel Spark

Tribe wrote 1 year ago: “The demonic will and singled-minded purpose of the mad.” Muriel Spark’s wickedly … more →

Tags: Comic Novels, Scottish

No Telephone To Heaven (the last pre-iPhone Phone-Photo-Essay forever)

Ross wrote 1 year ago: Here I am, making plans to change London again. It wants shaking up every so often… indeed, I … more →

Tags: Telephones, Kieran, Nicholson Baker, chris morris, London


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